Business took me to town where my sister lived. Then the dilemma kicks in. The business meeting's dragged and it's become obvious that we were never going to manage to cram everything in over the working lunch on Friday. None of the others want to stay late on what was after all poets day. Poets day? Ah come on - you've all heard of Poets day? Piss Off Early Tomorrow's Saturday!
Yeah well that's just fine and dandy for those who live and work locally. For folks like me who live almost three hundred miles away it means there is no way we're going to make it worth our while driving home and back again, especially in Winter. Cheaper to stay locally and pick up the threads fresh again on Monday morning.
Which brings me back to the dilemma. To stay with little sis or not just the week before Christmas. Now please don't get me wrong - I'm very fond of my little sister, trouble is she's some ten years younger than I am - doesn't seem a lot, but I left home when she was eight so we never really got to know each other as adults - I just occasionally get the impression that her view of me is in the 'boring old fart' category. Still I'm always made welcome even if I am reluctant to inflict myself on them. In the end this time my mind was made up for me. There was some sort of local pre-Christmas arts festival that weekend, which was why my colleagues wanted to get away, and also why all the local hotels in my expense account budget range were booked out. So I swung by her house.
I suppose I should have rung first. No I didn't catch them in a compromising position or anything like that, but I was left with the distinct impression that I wasn't quite as welcome as I might have been. In the end of course I stayed. With one daughter now living with her partner, the other had finished her university degree and was now living and working from home. Even still there was more than enough room to put me up. I would however be left pretty much to my own devices - that was made pretty clear. Sis and her Chamber of Commerce-hubby were very involved in the hierarchy of the festival - daughter made a face behind their backs at this point, and grinned at me - so they would be out late and away early on each of the days over the weekend.
Queue niece!
Shauna and I had always been quite close as she was fond of and got on well with both my sons and also my wife and I. She'd stayed with us when she was younger and unlike her rather spoilt, precocious and moody older sister had grown up into a well adjusted, quite normal young adult. One could almost say in spite of the best endeavours of my sister and her husband, but then isn't that normal in a lot of families.
A few minutes later as Sister - Charlotte, and Husband - Jack, bustled out on their way to their important social gatherings, Shauna and I waved them off.
"So Shauna, if Uncle is paying and I am, where can we go have a quiet bite to eat?"
She laughed, put on a baby voice and said "Well, Uncle Sven..."
She got no further as I swatted her ass, then held her shoulders and stated very firmly - "If you call me Uncle again, just once more this evening, I'll smack your behind and all bets are off!" The twinkle in her eye made me realise that perhaps the threat wasn't such a hell of a good idea suddenly, but I kept my grip on her shoulders nevertheless.
She giggled a bit more and relaxing in my grip laid her head on my chest and said "Okay, Sven, I'll be good. Now if you let me go I'll take you up to your room, we can freshen up, then if we head off out, I know a pub about ten miles away where we can grab a bite to eat without having to book."
"Sounds good," I said, kissed her on her forehead - which made her blush, Shauna blushes easily, then letting her go I grabbed my overnight bag and computer and followed her upstairs. As I did so I noted that 'little' Shauna had indeed grown up into an attractive woman, her tight little ass was mesmerisingly cute. I shook my head and cleared those sort of thoughts well out of my head - this was my twenty four year old niece, I was in my fifties and this was my sister's house. She'd have both my nuts on a platter if she knew what I'd just been thinking!
Shauna dug me out a shower towel and showed me the layout of the guest suite. "Damn sight nicer than the local Holiday Inn," I said, "Now I'll shower and freshen up and be with you in half an hour."
She looked me straight in the eye and answered "Back scrub, sir?" I grinned back, made a joke about hot and cold running chamber maids, patted her butt as she scooted past which made her giggle again and as I shut the door behind her the thought of being entertained by her company over the weekend made it all seem a bit easier than had I had the full attention of Charlotte and Jack.